Widescreen, anti-glare, touchscreen display for greater visability and ease of use
Preloaded map of U.S. (50 States and Puerto Rico)
Text-to-Speech
Spoken street names let you focus on the road
Over 4 Million Points-of-Interest Preloaded
Easily find restaurants, gas stations, emergency asisstance, hotels and much more
Lane Guidance
Voice prompts and visual indicators keep you in the proper lane, making turns easier
NavPixTM Photo Navigation
Easily navigate to locations from your geo-tagged photos
And, the comprehensive MioMore Desktop software is included so you can easily update software, manage maps and custom POIs and download geo-tagged photos.
The first GPS I used in our car was in 2000. It had a small 3.5 inch screen, was grayscale and had no routing. Nowadays you cannot pass or be passed by a car on the highway without seeing the little GPS navigation device on the dashboard. With more and more cars including the built in option, GPS for cars have come a long way in 9 years. Mio has entered the vast market with their own PND (Personal Navigation Device). The Moov M400 is good PND starter GPS if you have never used GPS in your car or have a very tight budget. You can find the unit at Radio Shack for $99.
M400 will give you ample POI and basic routing. The routing function gives you simple routes from Point A to Point B but you can alter the given route by adding POI along the way but I found this to be very cumbersome. During your route, the PND guides you via text to speech of the roads while I found the voice to be weak at times on some road enunciation. The lane visual indicators that keep you in the proper lane are very helpful and a must in all PND to get you to your detestation. One interesting feature it has is when you are on the highway and you are going over the speed limit, it will display in the lower corner the speed limit for the highway. Accuracy is a hard thing to measure in PND's so I can say this much is that all the PND's on the market do what is called snap to road. How this works is the software looks at the position you are at and assumes you are driving on a road so it moves your position over to the closest road. At times this can be an issue if there are lots of roads close by, the PND will snap you to the incorrect road. To help with this, the M400 has a function called WAAS which will give you an accuracy around 1 Meter.
In conclusion, M400 is a good low cost starter PND if you have never used GPS in your car.
